KathN's journal
Member since: Mar 11 | Last seen: Apr 13 | Years gardening: 25
Member since: Mar 11 | Last seen: Apr 13 | Years gardening: 25
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Another spate of days crammed full, but now I’m into a bit of a lull. And I’m glad for that. I want some space to chill, and to see how my garden grows.
Still no tomato fruit set. Plenty of blossoms. I realize we still have two months of the growing season, but as the gardener dow...
Appreciating the Sunbreaks in Life
Young Katie's garden
It’s been a stormy week, full of power-outages and temperatures rising. And that’s just at work. Oy vey! In the weather world, it’s mostly been overcast, rain here or there, temperatures barely breaking 70, and an occasional sunbreak.
But today I took off early, and the sun w...
Work has been extremely worky, and between it, guests (who I adored having), edits on the novel, and getting ready for a large gathering of friends next week, I’ve fallen behind on my garden journaling. I guess a full life is a blessing. If I wasn’t quite so knackered, I’d agr...
Having discovered that, despite an abundance of male flowers on my pumpkin vines, the females weren’t getting any pollination action (thank you internet for revealing the source of the blossom drop off!). So this morning I took matters into my own hands!
As a few of you Folians suggested, ...
My dog woke me up early this morning, so I just stayed up and got a start on the gardening.
I managed to finish amending the soil in the Japanese Maple bed last night, so all there was to do this morning was plant the plants! Now that they’re in, I need to give them a good watering, and th...
After work yesterday, I pulled half of the weeds from the beds. This morning, I pulled the other half. Then I started digging out the roots, only to discover that most of the “dirt” in there is gravel. Poor plants! No wonder what grew best there was weeds!
So I went to my local ho...
Poor Thelma is broody. She sits in one of two nesting boxes all day, her feathers fluffed to make the most of her body heat as she incubates, with great determination, nothing at all. The brain chems regulating normal chicken behavior are out of whack.
Unlike one of our Rhode Island Reds who lo...
After being quite cool and rainy this morning, the sunshine has come back and it’s lovely out!
My local neighborhood nursery is having an open house today, complete with a two-man blue-grass band, and Full Tilt Ice Cream! Full Tilt made two flavors of ice cream from the nursery’s pla...
It’s been a gloomy weekend here in Seattle. Yesterday it never made it above the mid-50s, and it rained in a haphazard, desultory fashion all day. I had big garden plans, but no dice. I’m simply not man enough to go dig out beds in the rain.
Then, around 7pm, my son came in to tell...